Current research projects include a consideration of the relevance of copyright’s categories to emerging global mass entertainment markets, a critical analysis of calls for cultural exceptions in intellectual property concerning indigenous intellectual and cultural property and the criterion of objectivity in assessing evidence in IP matters.
Protecting economic, social and cultural Rights in the ACT: models, methods and impact,: ARC Linkage project with Professor Hilary Charlesworth, Regnet, ANU) in collaboration with the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety (LP0989167)
National Human Rights Institutions in the Asia Pacific Region Project:ARC Linkage Project (with Andrea Durbach and Catherine Renshaw), in collaboration with the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions, entitled “Building Human Rights in the Region through Horizontal Transnational Networks: the. Role of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions” (LP0776639), details at http://www.ahrcentre.org/content/Activites/APFproject.html
Australia’s First Bill of Rights: Assessing the Impact of the Australian Capital Territory’s Human Rights Act 2004: ARC Linkage Project (with Hilary Charlesworth, Regnet, ANU), in collaboration with the ACT Department of Justice and Community Safety) (LP0455490), details at http://acthra.anu.edu.au/index.html
Terrorism and the non-State actor: The role of law in the search for security after September 11: ARC Discovery Project (DP045 1473) (with Simon Bronitt, Pene Mathew, Miriam Gani, Russell Hogg, and Mark Nolan, ANU), details at http://law.anu.edu.au/terrorismlaw/) (completed July 2008 with publication of Miriam Gani and Pene Mathew (eds), Fresh Perspectives on the ‘War on Terror’ (ANU E-press, 2008), available at http://epress.anu.edu.au/war_terror_citation.html)
Preparation of a commentary on the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (for Oxford University Press) (with Jane Connors)
Preparation of a commentary on The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Cambridge University Press) (with Gerard Quinn, Michael Stien, Theresia Degener, Janet Lord, and Andrew Begg)
To understand crime as a social practice, it is necessary to understand the meanings associated with different bodies - male, female, black, white. The body matters and what the body does matters. In this statement there are encapsulated two concepts - the social meanings that individuals ascribe to their female, male or transsexual bodies (the sexed body), the social meanings ascribed to what these specifically sexed bodies do (gender) and the social meanings ascribed to different biological characteristics (the raced body). Bodies matter to those who commit crime (for example, male on male violence; men`s sexual assault of women), to those who fear crime (the fear of crime is a fear of the sexed male body or a particular `raced` and sexed male body), and to those who seek to impose a rigid law and order agenda (for example, over-policing of the adolescent male body and the black male body).
Alternative Models for Prosecuting Child Sex Offences in Australia
Dr Anne Cossins (Law) is writing a Discussion Paper on behalf of the National Child Sexual Assault Reform Committee. The Paper constitutes a review of all aspects of the adversarial trial process, its problems and limitations in relation to prosecuting sex offences and proposals and recommendations for reform.
Current work includes: co-editing a collection of legal scholarship on Michel Foucault; an essay on Foucault and human rights (in the context of contemporary critical debates on human rights); and, an essay on the relevance of Nietzschean concepts of memory and forgetting to a jurisprudential analysis of transitional justice and colonialism.
Jill Hunter is currently engaged in 2 major research projects.
The study of real juries combines expertise across evidence law and practice, forensic psychology and criminology. The study has the support of judges, the criminal bar, court administration and the Attorney-General`s Department. It aims to improve the handling of potently prejudicial evidence by limiting its emotive impact on nury decision-making.
The second project is analysing DIMIA and Refugee Review Tribunal representation and decision-making from a random sample of 72 refugee applicants with a view to creating a better understanding of how applicants with post-traumatic stress disorder might be better represented in their refugee-status applicaitons. This study straddles psychology and administrative law, evidence law and broad principles that inform the adjudicative process. It involves Law School colleagues Mehera San Roque and Ronnit Redman and Medical Faculty colleagues Derick Silove, Zac Steel and Naomi Frommer from the Psychiatry Research and Training Unit at Liverpool Hospital.
`Nanotechnology as a technological component of a post 2012 climate change regime: How should policy makers shape an appropriate legal and regulatory framework?`
`Climate change and renewable energy from the sea: A scoping study of new challenges for international and Australian environmental law and policy`
Theunis Roux is currently engaged in researching the record of the South African Constitutional Court (CCSA) in the first twelve years of its life, from 1995-2006. This research project, which draws on political science accounts of courts in new democracies, is aimed at explaining the apparent success of the CCSA in establishing a reputation for principled decision-making in the face of repeated threats to its independence. http://www.law.unsw.edu.au/research/current_research.asp
